tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83387702017323904462012-01-13T13:13:38.602-08:00Life Musings, Art & Creativity, Nature, Inspirations...HeartFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065965886951764136noreply@blogger.comBlogger1191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8338770201732390446.post-88617664006918689832011-12-21T23:59:00.000-08:002011-12-22T00:04:08.756-08:00

The lengthening of the days begin today and I join the journey towards more light and the renewal of Spring...Winter SolsticeI have been enjoying the grays, the short days, the few frosty frozen mornings. Above I found a whimsical sun enshrined in a sidewalk, as if to remind me, yes, there really is a sun up there hovering above the ever present gray cloud cover here in the Northwest. A

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I listened and I heard the trees speaking of stories long ago...Copyright 2011 Delorse LoveladyArt ShowMany local talented artists will be represented at this show. My latest paintings above and below will be included. All paintings in this show are small or miniatures making them ideal for gift giving this time of year.December 3, 2011 - January 25, 2012"Miniature Masterpieces and More"Kaewyn

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Fall has flown, winter is soon upon us so we reach for all the brilliance we can...Art Show in EdmondsI'm so thrilled to be in this show with my painting critique group! We have been encouraging each other monthly for a couple of years now, and this is our first show together. Do stop in and take a look. You can make an afternoon of enjoying art and the wonderful ambiance of Edmonds, as most

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Experimenting, playing with fiber, paper, beads, who knows what I'll create on any given day..."Heron Whispers to the Moon" Mixed Media 8.25"x10.5"Museum Fiber ShowThis piece will be included in the upcoming show below. Be sure to add it to your calendar as it promises to be full of fibery goodness and wonderful creations from our guild members.2011 Pacific Northwest Needlearts Guild

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Focusing on shapes and silhouettes and birds...Crow SeriesThis group of paintings was started in February. It began with the small painting at the top right. It actually was a crane and I disliked it a lot, proportions were off, colors were too much, it was sitting on my table in the studio, waiting. So, one day, I picked it up and started carving out a new shape with gesso and so on. I

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Sifting through photo's, mixing colors, shapes... mixing it up...PhotoShop ArtAbove is a Photoshop composite of 3 photo's taken at a recent visit to the Seattle Flight Museum. I used layers, inversion, several other adjustments and filters to combine the 3 photo's: looking into a jet engine, the bottom of a hot air balloon, and butterflies.The Museum of FlightThe Museum of Flight is a

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Taking a break, playing with color and pen...SAM and BAMThat's Seattle Art Museum and Bellevue Art Museum, for non-locals reading this... my spouse and I have a museum date once a month. Last month it was SAM where we viewed the Nick Cave, "Meet Me at the Center of Earth" exhibit of "soundsuits". There were rooms full of stunning life-size manikins artfully and completely covered with a

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Still painting those undulating shapes... "The Sun Held Court Over the Whispering Seas" 16x20 mixed mediaCopyright 2011 by Delorse LoveladySeattle CoArts Art ShowThe above picture is a small peek at one of my two paintings that were juried into the Seattle CoArts Show "The Joy of Art!". This is one small

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“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”.... John LennonTime has moved by at warp speed and I'm realizing I haven't posted for over six weeks. So I suppose I've been taking a breath, or two, away from the little screen that captures my words and images and sends them to who knows where or to whom....The Desert, Death ValleyI finally got my taste of "Southwest" kind

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Such smart interesting birds, I love to watch them...Crows and a PaintingHere is one of my latest acrylic paintings... playing with shapes, colors, movement. I have a series of these going on now.Crows are such a delight to watch, and I have that opportunity every day, as our house is in their daily flyway. Every evening about an hour or so before dusk, they are winging their way in our

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Sometimes changing direction is just the best thing to do...Do OverOnce in a great while I might wonder if a "do over" of a life situation might have been better. But not very often, as, I generally am content and consider myself blessed in many ways. Why am I talking about this? Well, I recently discovered what "do over" means on painting. Having used watercolors for so many years, I didn't

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A deep bucket of creativity filled the circle within...Shibori DyingOur machine embroidery group got together this week (Thank you yet again, to our talented June), and this is what we brewed up in a big bucket of dye. To start, we folded, scrunched, twisted, and more to the plain white fabrics. Some were tied onto a pvc pipe, other stuffed in those net bags that oranges come in, and others

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Enjoying nature, shapes, lines and colors.....Snow GeeseWe headed north to LaConner on Friday to the Skagit Valley farming area to see if we could spot some snow geese or eagles. There were thousands of snow geese! And I counted 12 eagles. As always, I carry my sketchbook, and captured a quick sense of the shapes. Lately I am paying more attention to shapes in my paintings and perhaps these

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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about." Jackson PollockAbstract PaintingThis is a portion (maybe a third) of an abstract painting I worked on a couple of weeks ago. Very vivid colors, including gold which doesn't always photograph well. I believe I may be working on a series of this kind of abstract, as half

HeartFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065965886951764136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8338770201732390446.post-35739310509643270712011-01-25T13:52:00.000-08:002011-01-25T13:53:36.424-08:00

"So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness." Sidney PoitierAnd this is how I feel today, random, tangled... I had to look up a quote as the words are not flowing easily. I've managed to come down with fever and a cold or flu. So it's hot tea and chicken soup for me for the next week.Meanwhile, a bit of creativity from a week or so ago. This basket (about 7.5 inches

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"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast..." from Alice in WonderlandThe Sketchbook ProjectAbove is the outside cover from my sketchbook "Lights in the Distance" just submitted to the ArtHouse Co-op a couple of days ago. This previous posting talks a bit about it. I made 2 originals, so I could keep one. I used the moleskin sketchbook sent by ArtHouse,

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Taking time for art, it's so relaxing...Kaewyn Gallery Miniature ShowTheir annual show is still on until January 25, so if you are local don't miss the opportunity to see lots of wonderful small art pieces in the gallery. You can find the address and hours at the link to their website.This and ThatLately I have created an array of art pieces that I have yet to post.... some fabric dying &

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Time for reflection, savoring the wintry weather, darkness leading to light...Playing with my camera, this is a night shot of our holiday trip to Canada a couple of weeks ago. We were just there in October too, we can't seem to get enough of going to this peaceful quiet exquisitely beautiful place. I love the way they leave the lights up in the trees at night - all year long, making it seem

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Remembering a day at the beach this fall...

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I gazed out the window at the lovely huge soft snowflakes falling from heaven...Our first snow of the season fell today, their slow glide like a white moving lacy curtain outside our windows. But, they did not stay long as our temperatures were not quite cold enough.I have been playing this past couple of weeks with fanciful things. I made a "fascinator" which is a frufru cocktail hat (good for

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Sometimes the colors are so luscious, I want to swim in them.....Fall ColorsWe've been out on several occasions lately just to see the fall colors of the trees with the leaves turning. We don't really have to go very far to see the changes. Amazingly beautiful reds, oranges, yellows - cast against blue/white skies and grassy greens... My photo's here are from a nearby park and along the side

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I just keep on painting whatever appeals to me, and I see it's mostly nature that inspires...Screening and JuryingThis past week I presented paintings for screening to the Board of the Seattle Co-Arts and was juried in as a member. I spent a fair amount of time wondering what to submit, as my art has been in transition for quite a while. And so, to demonstrate that, and to acknowledge I wasn't

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Behind the exquisite shiny things and airy beauty are the talented hands of the creators...CostumingOur sewing guild was privileged to have a presentation from the talented Larae Hascall, the Costume Shop Manager for our Pacific Northwest Ballet here in Seattle. She brought some gorgeous costumes and head adornments and necklaces created by her shop for the dancers. I was particularly

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Sketching is a lot of fun, just relax and don't tell your hand what to do and it'll be fine...!A Walk, A Sketch, Some RainToday my husband and I took a walk and enjoyed the crisp air in a nearby park along Lake Washington. The heavy gray clouds burst open as I was sketching in a non-permanent ink pen, and I caught some interesting rain drop effects on my quick sketch. Got it home later and

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Moored momentarily, they had been on many journeys... and patiently waited for the next adventure.Perhaps I am seeing a metaphor for myself, patiently waiting, for my next adventure. Perhaps it is the turning from summer to fall. As I drove down the street a couple of days ago I noticed a few leaves, turned a light tan, dancing on a breeze in front of me. It's cooler, rainy, and full of the

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"When all is said and done, artists need to struggle on their own." Robert GennIt really seems like summer is over here in north Seattle, today is so gray and rainy looking, cool, breezy, same as yesterday, this mid-August. So I needed a blast of color - and here it is.These colorful pieces were created last May in my machine embroidery group. So much fun and experimenting. We did spray

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The lines blur, who knows where the sun, the light and the seas begin and end.I am continuing in my series and studies of sun, light and seas... getting lost in the lines of where one begins and one ends... as I paint the textures and rhythms of the waves, clouds, or shimmers. Painting these are like meditations for me, going to a serene peaceful place with no time, swimming in the unconscious

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Summer time, a lovely time for arty events...On the postcard above, the small painting with tulip fields is mine. I have been so busy, painting and painting.... I just hung my artwork for this show yesterday, 18 new acrylic and mixed media paintings, mostly seascapes, suns. Feels great to see them finished and hanging... And this morning I started on 3 more canvases! I am loving the colors

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Sun rising... a new day... every day... the light comes in... and pushes away the dark"Sun Rising Over the Glorious Waters" , Acrylic 4"x6" copyright Delorse LoveladyPaintingI am back to painting one of my very favorite subjects: suns and light, waters and waves. I find it very meditative to stroke those waves into life and those flashes of light, a kind of rhythm in the painting

HeartFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065965886951764136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8338770201732390446.post-85827757956339339182010-06-20T23:52:00.000-07:002010-06-20T23:53:27.610-07:00

I was immersed in the landscape and the culture of Texas....Big Skies... Horses... and Longhorns...Aside from being a wonderful family visit, my recent trip to Texas re-immersed me into the landscape and some of what defines the area and the culture of being Texan.... More fun with my camera... still sorting through hundreds of photos. Travel is such a wonderful thing for opening your senses,

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Savoring the Texas spring beauty, overflowing with color...On my recent April/May trip to Texas I saw so many wildflowers everywhere. I had plenty of practice with my camera's macro setting.I love the spring in Texas when it is so green, and yes, temperatures are even balmy. During my visit it was mostly in the 60's and low 70's with thunderstorms rolling in one after the other, so dramatic

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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.... Kurt CobainThis photo is of an antique crystal chandelier in the Ashland, Or Cabaret Theater.Planning for future museum trips I found that one of our local museums has a Kurt Cobain exhibit on, he being the Seattle founder of "grunge rock". Now I never was a follower of same, but I like his quote above.Somehow it ties

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Floating among the clouds and the sea, unbound spirit, limitless space..."Floating Among the Clouds and the Sea" , Acrylic 4"x5" Delorse Lovelady Apr2010Ocean InspirationsThe painting above is one recently completed which was inspired by our recent travel in March to the Oregon coast, a place of breathtaking beauty. I composed the 17 syllable Haiku above to attempt to convey

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A stitch here, a bead or button there, creating with various media is fun... The photo above and directly below are random compositions made of recycled fabric, threads, metals that I did within a machine embroidery group that I below to. These were done earlier this year. Every month we get together and experiment with new techniques on our sewing machines, and perhaps also add some hand

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Faces, faces everywhere, all so interesting, all carrying a story...Here are a few sketches of faces from some drawing sessions earlier this year... I constantly am trying to improve and capture a moment in time....And below, here is one that I painted on a small 5"x7" hard canvas... mixed media.

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"Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter." Paul KleeDelorse Lovelady 2010 "Oh, Give Me Color Today!" 4x6 acrylicPaintings and SpringI have managed to do some small paintings to enter into a local juried miniatures show, the Edmonds Art Fair that is held every year in June. I

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"You have to keep the young adventurer inside your heart alive long enough for it to someday re-emerge.... Granny DIt may take some coaxing and some courage, but that person is in you always -- never growing old." Granny DAn Exotic Bird"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive." Al

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"Morning has broken like the first morning... Mine is the sunlight... " Cat StevensPopcorn Sky MorningThe photo in this artwork is one I lucked into quickly one day as we were out and about several months ago. I am always taken in with capturing light and cloud formations whether painting or photographing. This is one of my favorite cloud formations, I call it a popcorn sky or a Georgia

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“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents...Delorse Lovelady 2010 Passage Through the Islands 5x7 Acrylic"...Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness” Kahlil GibranBehind the PaintingDo you ever

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"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. " John Muir CanadaWe took another short British Columbia trip recently as I was recouperating from cold and sinus, it was wonderful soaking in an outdoor hot springs and walking on this peaceful lake. Although friends warned of lengthy border

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"When in doubt, wear red..." Bill BlassRed is my inspiration today....Vibrant, loud, a look-at-me colorHappy, exuberant, excitingDressing up flowers everywhereDancing with the hot chili peppersI see you in Spring peeking from the buds,In Summer you are blooming mad, andFalling into the leaves in Autumn.With Winter you arrive in poinsettias and ribbons.Passionate, Luscious, Red Marilyn lips.

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"Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances..."She Stepped Into the Light" Delorse LoveladyCopyright 2009 - Acrylic on CanvasThat's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.

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"What orbit of the planets has put you and me in this place, at this moment? Where time takes a breath, and we dance on the edge of our dreams?" AnonmyousTime seems to have flown by in a whirlwind this month. A trip to the sea, reconnecting with old friends, a couple of workshops, learning new stitchery things, sketching and painting, museums, walking,and now... resting, as the latest cold

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I often find it nourishing to step back and let nature work it's magic upon my soul...A SunriseWe were graced with viewing these incredible skies with the Cascade mountain range in the background early one morning this week... a fabulous window dressing for our morning breakfast.A Road Trip to the SeaWe had just returned from spending our New Year's on the Oregon coast, a supremely beautiful and

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A few words whispered out into the ethernet in the still of the night...Cougar Mountain Zoo Crane, Kale and ReindeerMolbak's bottle display...who knows who will read my words, or what they might do out there......This time of year is filled even more so than usual, with so many memories. I feel at peace and relieved after talking to several members of my southwest family that they are surviving

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Graffiti is art too...Having fun with my camera on a gray day out in Seattle... I wonder who did these, how many? There is some raw talent here and creativity and a freedom of expression. The cowboys of the art world.A trainload of art, a traveling gallery sits waiting on the tracks. All those anonymous artists we never see have gone home... while the train sits on the tracks.Do you wonder

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“We marched in Berlin, and the wall fell....""We marched for South Africa, and apartheid fell. "We marched at Copenhagen -- and we WILL get a Real Deal.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu told hundreds of delegates and assembled children at the Copenhagen summit.GREEN ALERT - Climate ChangeI just joined over 13,623,468 people in the world's largest-ever campaign to keep us all safe.There has

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A frozen ice palace with giant icicles surrounded the falls while the water created a powdery mist...A Day TripThe last few days I have been seeing on the local news how Snowqualmie Falls was experiencing a big freeze around it and lots of icicles had formed around the falls. We had never seen them with snow and ice around them before, so, despite predictions of snow flurries today, off we went

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Making sense of all that comes in... can be overwhelming... or, on the other hand, you can focus on the inside and listen to yourself...More PaintingLately I have been quite busy, I finished six paintings for the miniature show at Kaewyn gallery, and was happy to deliver those right before Thanksgiving. All were acrylics and incorporated experimental techniques I have been playing with: more

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Welcome it all, whatever may come... for in the end we are each works of art being shaped by our living, both joys and struggles, along the way...A few Thanksgiving thoughts before I'm off to the kitchen to prepare our special dinner for today... This picture is of a very small Italian ceramic from a thrift shop that holds these objects that stay on my table where I eat. I have a habit of

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Playing with colors and a little retreat... so soothing...Playing with ColorHere is a start on another acrylic painting, I think it needs a little bit more... I have been experimenting with lots of color. Why not have a red sky and blue rocks? Maybe it's to compensate for the northwest rainy season, our "monsoon" season which has arrived and here to stay til, perhaps April or May?A Short

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Sometimes within the chaos, churning, and turnings of our lives, messages emerge from the deep ready to be received..."Messages from the Deep" #1, a series - copyright Delorse LoveladyAbstractionsHappily, I have been painting regularly again and must have a dozen or so abstractions finished or in process since Oct. All in acrylic, mixed media, a new direction for me, as I have been doing

HeartFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065965886951764136noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8338770201732390446.post-5101886989243263122009-11-07T18:33:00.000-08:002010-06-28T14:16:05.077-07:00

Off we went on our fall odyssey, down familiar roads, and some less traveled blue highways...Gorgeous scenery everywhere... above, a scene from the breathtaking Three Capes Scenic Route along the coast of Oregon, and next to it a Photoshoped picture of the last of the sunflowers at a nature preserve in Ashland, Or. Below is a view from our room in Ashland... the famous Ashland hills, with

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Fall colors, last of the local veggie/fruit summer harvest, crispy weather, and a witch who wasn't paying attention!Pumpkins and PhotoshopAbove are a couple of pumpkin pictures from our local Yakima Fruits & Veggie Market, only one more week, then the harvest is gone and they switch totally to pumpkins and Christmas trees. The scarecrows on either side were pix I took in Jacksonville, OR, then,

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What are we waiting for??? We are the ones we are waiting for..."My Green Heaven Mosaic" - created in PhotoshopBlog Action Day: Climate ChangeWe are on a road, a path from which it is difficult to remove ourselves. Stuck in patterns, bad habits, bad attitudes, we wait for a renaissance, but we must create it ourselves, take a new path, alter course........ We are after all, still part of the

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A day of exploring a couple of state parks on Camano Island, about an hour and a half or so north of Seattle...This quick painting (no pen) above is my second go at the scene in one of the parks we visited. Much more vibrant than the first that is below. The first one I started with pen, then added paint.And here is a photo I took of the scene, very typically grayed out Northwest, not a lot of

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Stunning natural beauty, raw rugged lands, clear moving waters, big skies... I have a goal to see every national park and monument..."Nature's Painting" - Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming This small piece of Yellowstone is a stunning example of what I saw throughout the park. I was amazed by the dramatic colors created by sulphur and other minerals, misty steam, creeks and channels, and the

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Fresh sea air, wispy clouds, people digging clams, crows, a peaceful day by the sea, just you and me...Birch Bay TripAnother outing for the day, we headed north about 90 miles to Birch Bay almost to the Canadian border. It's a small quaint town where nothing is happening, and it's nice and quiet. And it has a wonderful park along the length of the beach and forested park area in the hills above

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A relaxing day of road tripping, sketching and painting in the mountains... Peshastin Pinnacles and a PaintingThis is my final painting of the day, painted in the car in the dark while my husband drove back to Seattle at the end of our day. I'm very pleased with the vibrant colors and had wondered how it would come out given the lighting, but I challenged myself to paint it in the dark

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I have always loved red land and rocks and spare desert landscapes and find myself still painting them...InspirationHere is a glimmer of red rock inspiration. This on-site quick pen sketch and watercolor painting above was done on a road trip last year to Ashland, OR. We took a side trip to California where it turned out to be the hottest day, over 100 degrees. But we had a fun day anyway

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the rain came rolling in last night, good sleeping weather, we could hear it beating down heavily, and smell that rich wet earth smell...An Arty Sunday AfternoonI love rain and it did come down last night and today. But several of us dodged the drops and met to have one of our regular Art Dates. Such a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, with a circle of a half dozen like-minded artists,

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Lazy colorful days of summer... enjoying the sunshine while it is here... Capturing a MomentI recently was in an Open Studio and Art Sale at my friend's house, and while we sat outside in her gardens she hooked a rug, as I was capturing a quick sketch. She asked me if her chin was that long, of course not, this is a quick sketch, no details, sketcher does not guarantee accuracy of proportions,

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” Margaret MeadThe Sun risesThe Sun setsThe Earth moves round and round that Center of LightWhile I keep spinning all the whileAltered Book PaintingThis small acrylic and oil pastel painting is an entry I did this past week in an altered book for a

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The serpent bones spoke to me of the ancient cycles of living, dying and being reborn...the serpent bones, with skin long since shed, whispered that the spiraling inward towards our center or spiraling outward towards the cosmic, it is the same.Spirals and a Photoshop TipToday I'm playing with photographs and Photoshop (PS). I was choosing a picture to send in for the latest photoartjournals

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"Though that blazing sun does make life possible, I found it difficult to appreciate the searing hot rays..."Above are examples of "process" paintings I did about two years ago using tempera paints. A process painting is about painting intuitively without plan or design, painting emotions, like expressionism, rich with metaphor. The top one is named "Light Above the Sea." The second box shows

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I wandered through the fields of purple lavender, an ecstasy of colors, sweet scent, and natural beauty everywhere... heaven.Shades of Purple - Lavender FarmsA couple of days ago we took a ferry and headed over to Sequim, which I thought was the NW capitol of lavender, but turns out to be the North American lavender producing capitol. There are at least a dozen farms to visit, and over the years

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Contemplative reverie and emotive blues... these paintings emerged from my hand...Painting FacesI find myself drawn towards expressing faces with my art lately, whether sketching or painting. The two above are my latest acrylic paintings. My goal in most of my paintings is to express, capture gestures, feelings, a sense of place, and not photographic realism at all. First came the blue face,

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“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” Michael JacksonTrip to Rose CityWe're back from an exhilerating trip to Portland. That biker in the picture above is my husband who did all 200

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“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb..." Robert Fulghum"And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air -- explode softly -- and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of

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"All Journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Martin BuberTrip To the Big Alone and SketchingWe're back from a cruise up the Inside Passage to Alaska. I heard the ship naturalist refer to Alaska as the Big Alone, since he pursues a lot of wildlife and adventure travel that has included 2 years alone on a remote Alaskan island. Cruising is not like being alone in the

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"You may say I'm a Dreamer, but I'm not the only one...." John LennonGoing back in time here for a visit...... From my archives, Arch Rock from the exquisite Oregon coast. I used pen and ink and watercolors, one of my favorite ways of painting. I'm looking at this painting from a different perspective today. I'm thinking of a teacher I met along the way who said that in martial arts they

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A busy day and I still deserve time out to enjoy the flowers in my yard...I just love the beautiful colors and shapes of the poppies and irises blooming in my yard... I took time out from house cleaning today to enjoy them and then pull a few weeds too. Amazing what just a few minutes of fresh air will do, clear out the mind so I can go back in and do what needs to be done.Painting and Art-A-Day

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She heard the mountain laughing as the moon and stars came out, and crow came to take her for a ride...Art-A-Day Journal HousesMy art-a-day journal has these whimsical, somewhat quirky collaged houses here and there that make me smile. When the mood strikes and I have interesting paper to play with out comes another one. I like combining my journal collages with pen drawing and a few words. My

HeartFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065965886951764136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8338770201732390446.post-52294885988985222762009-06-01T19:37:00.000-07:002009-06-01T19:38:52.857-07:00

Birds never cease to fascinate, with their ability to soar above us on the wind currents...Experimenting with AcrylicsThis is my experiment with acrylics and collage, I called it "At Peace on the Stream" (8x10 canvas). It was fun to do, but I find it challenging to work with acrylics. I like their thickness, and the texture I can get, but then I miss the fluidity of the watercolors and having

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Memorial day...remembering those gone, but living now and loving the ones you're with...A leisurely Memorial Day here, some gardening going on, a little art-making, family conversations, the cat's snoozing the day away, while our resident woodpecker hammers away remodeling his birdhouse, and we get ready to BBQ our dinner. Random thoughts of those long ago who landed on a beach far far away in

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I continue to experiment and surely it is all taking me somewhere with my art, soon I will get back to painting...?Shibori Dyed Fabric Above is a picture of fabric pieces that I recently dyed using shibori type methods to create the patterns. Shibori is the Japanese word for several methods of dying cloth with a pattern by binding, stitching, folding, twisting, or compressing it. I've read that

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Focus in with the eye, capture the line, the shapes, try to get the essence...Sketch of a woodpecker from a picture done a couple of months ago. Lately I have been sketching lots of faces, which I will scan and post soon. Meanwhile, my meditation for today (tonight) is more sketching. I have some interesting postcards to use... Drawing can be such a relaxing thing to do... let the mind go and

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I just love the feline approach to life, nonchalant, taking it as it comes, watching the birds, zoning out with that inscrutable look while their humans busy about...Photoshop Faux PostageAnother experiment in Photoshop I did a while back. I altered photo's of my wonderful cat using some filters & colors, added text, resized, and came up with this postage strip. Doesn't he look happy & excited

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That beating heart drumming a continuous rhythm of love and life...Today I think of my mother in her 80's that I am so grateful for, and all the journeys we've taken together. Mothers make me think of flowers, warm cookies in the oven, helping hands, busy hands, creative hands, and that ever nurturing spirit. The photo's are from our Gaia Mother (Earth mother, named after the supreme Greek

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Beautiful writing looks so inspiring, all those flourishes & swirls... fine lettering is an art form to admire carrying our words with grace, or perhaps with flair...CalligraphyLast week I had a fun day of short lettering classes at a calligraphy conference that I attend every year. Above are 2 pages of play/lettering practice using parallel pens. I love these pens and have had 2 of them for a

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We each present ourselves to the world uniquely in our dress or costume... but beneath lies the dreaming soul, that spark that enlivens our being in the world... The mask/shield sculpture in this picture I created in 1998 as part of my training in art therapy. I used and shaped leather over a life plaster cast of a person's face and used an overall palette of gold, red and black. Found crow

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I love watching birds, so graceful as they dance in the sky... transporting me to imagined places with the flutterings of their wings and charming songs...Herons and Art a Day PageThe quick sketch above is from my Art Page a Day journal I started last November. I sketched from this picture which I took...The local herony which boasts probably 30 or more nests in the Swamp Creek area is visible

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another lovely NW day...a little of this and a little of that... enjoying flowers, colors, and birds Poppies and a Special FriendAren't these colors just eye-popping, well it is a poppy! I was SO thrilled yesterday when my dear friend Sharon Baker gifted the beautiful wall hanging on the right to me... she hand hooked it with those gorgeous wool colors and modeled it after the poppy picture I

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Mother Earth painted with a full palette today, Earth Day... cloudy, rainy, then sunny and blue skies, fabulous blossoms in the trees and masses of tulips and daffodils in the valley...Tulip FieldsThis is a watercolor painting I did several years ago from a photo I had taken in the Skagit Valley. Prints will be available soon in my Etsy shop.Wednesday finally I was recovered enough from the flu,

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Imitating something is a good way to learn, but in the end my own hand begins to reveal itself and steer in my own direction... and it's better that way... Imitating Lomo PhotographyI have been playing a lot with Photoshop (PS) lately while recovering from flu... I decided to try imitating Lomo photography, because I don't want to buy a Lomo camera and deal with developing film too, but I love

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"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." John LennonAfter ArtfestA few words about my Artfest retreat with 3 workshops since I have been so busy upon returning home... As usual, it was refreshing to be surrounded by so much creativity, wonderful artists, the cool crisp sea air and magnificent scenery. Above you see 4 paintings I completed in Misty Mawn's class where we

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...a lovely cloudy/sunny day here in the Northwest and our plum tree is bursting with creamy white blooms... while our nearby vegetable garden stores up energy for the bounty to come....Taking Care of the HomesteadFinally our new decks are completed along the upper back of the house replacing the old crumbling one. Instead of a long narrow one the length of the house, now we have a larger more

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I had the pleasure of enjoying art camp the last 5 days, surrounded by much joy and laughter... and wildly creating people...This is a doll I call "Road Trip Lizzie". I created her in 2007 for Artfest from a preformed doll body with a face drawn by Teesha, the organizer of Artfest. Lizzie went on our family vacation on our road trip to Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota where I found some of the

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Retreats are a wonderful gift to yourself, even if it's 10 minutes of quiet time doing something you love, or nothing at all... Maybe doing nothing at all is doing something for your soul, a letting go of all the "commitments", "shoulds", "have to's", "to do's", the endless stream of everyday life... or perhaps letting go of our personal demons and monsters that nip at our heels, and, so, is a

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We are all interconnected in the giant web called life, we are not just observers of nature, we are part of nature... so in effect, by trying to save planet Earth, our home, and other species who live on it, we are really saving ourselves too.I saw this Saturday morning and had to send it out... This will be my "Sunday" Meditation for the week.... the challenge is to turn off, dim down to

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Pay attention to underlying supports so your foundations are strong and structures don't collapse... it is important to "clear the decks" once in a while so you get a new perspective, whether it's your house or yourself, and always try something new.Experimenting with Felted Bag/Photoshop Tip This is a wonderful felted bag I bought last year at a museum shop, it has been sitting unused because I

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...the dainty delicate leaves and lavender petals of our crocus are shyly opening up in our yard, slowly, keeping watch for another blast from winter...We've had an incredible winter here in the Northwest, "the big snowstorm" which was actually five rolling in one after the other covering us in frozen white in January. Then at least three more blasts of hail and snow more recently. But Spring

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"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels." Goya, famous painter ArtfestI have been happily playing with Photoshop again and created the above ATC (Artist Trading Card) for trading for Artfest 2009. The theme is undersea monsters which I was not overly enchanted with, however, this particular image which I

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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals him[her]self in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." Albert Einstein "Spiritus" Art SubmittalI have not been up on submitting things to publishers but I could not resist trying for the new publication planned by Lark Books: 500 Found Object Works. As I mentioned in a

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Sky Breaks Over the Waters... a quick simple watercolor painting where I sought to capture the skys churning with rain to come over the Columbia River and the Pacific......the elusive cloud-filled skys are one of my favorite subjects... so therefore, it's perfect that I live in the Northwest.... Below is a terrific You Tube video produced by two brothers Al Meldrum and Ewen Meldrum as a tribute

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This week we've had gray days in the Northwest (no surprise), hail and snow, too, but Friday was a gloriously sunny day when I had the pleasure of spying on the local herony, watching them preening, fixing their nests, sitting on eggs, and coming and going, all so enchanting, since we do afterall, live in suburbia. The day before I enjoyed the Seattle Asian Art Museum with a friend and loved the

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"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, read quotations, draw conclusions on the wall...." Bob DylanThis is my latest experiment in the digital and graphics software world. I love playing with Photoshop and discovering the amazing things that can be done with ordinary or even not so good photos. I have combined several techniques after stripping the color out

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Sometimes it seems like nothing is happening or changing, but, every moment in the canvas of our lives is painting us towards our unknowable unique future... The top abstract landscape painting from my imagination is one of my earlier works in watercolor, I still like it because of it's simplicity and the feeling of quiet and serenity even though it appears to be a stormy day. The second painting

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"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." Muriel RukeyserAfrican AdventuresAnother trip to African Mama's shop this week where I enjoyed using my digital camera again and then playing with photoshop with the images. I love the intense colors, the designs, the craftsmanship, and the masks are fascinating. They all hold a story, a mythology of the people who created them.And here is a quick

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Taking time for a few minutes of artful meditation... This is a painting I did in 2007 when I was thinking about Van Gogh's style. I like his vivid use of color and line and was trying out more freedom of expression in a bold way.Take time for this lovely art show of Vincent Van Gogh's work, one of my favorite artists, set to Don McLean's Starry Starry Night song

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